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...A trio of countertenors (Eric Jurenas, plus Key’mon W Murrah and Siman Chung in their debuts) also narrate, and briefly play the Three Kings....
...(That didn’t happen with the Rodney King beating.) In Europe, both the “woke” movement and much of the alt-right reaction against it are American imports. And the US isn’t even trying to do this....
...East won with K♣, and led a third diamond to West’s king. The case for the defence began immediately: “Both finesses wrong — as usual — couldn’t be made.”...
...The trial of one of America’s most famous Black citizens in a Los Angeles courtroom unfolded four years after the brutal beating of Rodney King, a Black man, by LA police, and racial tensions in the city...
...Hip-hop’s biggest names are hurling insults at each other — a veritable feast of roasting and grilling from the self-styled kings, gods and goats of US rap....
...His Simpson’s reboot, meanwhile, sounds like it will be comparable to previous revivals of The Ivy and J Sheekey. “Hopefully, I know how to do Simpson’s,” he says....
...in the high, breathy tones of a 1960s King’s Road troubadour....
...Every year, the bestseller lists feature celebrity memoirs and works by dazzling and established literary stars — but also reader-driven surprises, from Sarah J Maas’s romantic fantasy series, including...
...Seligman started his journey to America in 1837 on a horse-drawn cart from a Bavarian farming town and went on to make a fortune as the founder of J & W Seligman & Co, which became famous for trading US...
...However, when West continues with K♥ and J♥, you ruff high in dummy and East shows out. How does that change your plans? West is now marked with six hearts headed by ace-king-jack....
...The club’s executive chairman is one Daniel J....
...Having drawn trumps, South took the diamond finesse, losing to East’s king. East exited passively with another diamond....
...Jae5 has given it a London stamp, especially through his work with leading UK rapper J Hus....
...The beauty of South’s play was this: even if West wins the third club trick with J♣, declarer was safe. What could West lead?...
...At the first table, declarer won in dummy, and played a spade to ace and cashed the king. When Q♠ failed to drop, he was one down....
...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...
...Charles was a monarchical absolutist who believed not in supporting a strong parliament, but in the divine right of kings....
...He emulated former director J Edgar Hoover by wearing dark suits, but his quick temper and dour manner made him unpopular....
...At trick 2, South leads J♣, not covered by West, runs it, and is relieved when it holds....
...Mandy Madden Kelley, entrepreneur I would never part with my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...And for fans of incremental queueing there’s also the wall-embedded luggage trolley at Platform 9¾ in King’s Cross station (we threw in the towel midway along the “rear” line)....
...It’s 11am on a Friday and the busiest counter in Space NK’s King’s Cross store in central London is Rare Beauty, the make-up line from singer Selena Gomez....
...soughing winds on the exposed moorland, the obsidian stillness of the river pools — all of this in a patch of England reduced to the size of a pocket handkerchief when we laid out an OS map in a café at King...
...See also: One of the most famous liability-management transactions thus far, when J Crew was said to “J Screw” existing lenders by dropping a significant share of its intellectual property into a subsidiary...
...Should he play for J♦ to drop, or take the finesse?...
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